Apartments in the famous neighbourhoods of Paris

The north-west quadrant of the 6th arrondissement, the area known as St.-Germain-des-Prés, is one the wealthier parts of Paris and certainly one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in which to live. The cafés here – notably the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots ...

Occupying the area of the 8th arrondissement between the Seine and the avenue des Champs Elysées, this is another of Paris’s most exclusive neighbourhoods. What’s surely the world’s most famous street is given over to flagship branches of the world’s most ...

Long the hub for Paris’s LGBT community and a popular student area, the Marais is these days also a popular choice for trendy young professionals. There are some great apartments here, some with exposed beams, and the neighbourhood teams with hip shops, bars, clubs ...

Perhaps the most glamorous neighbourhood in the already very glamorous 16th arrondissement, the Trocadéro is just across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. There are more museums clustered together here than in any other part of Paris, among them the Cité de ...

The Louvre is among Paris’s least populated neighbourhoods, but what it lacks in residents it more than makes up for in tourists, who come here to visit one of the world’s best, biggest and most spectacular museums. Once the Louvre closes for the day however, ...

Beginning where the 17th arrondissement meets the Arc de Triomphe is the high-end residential neighbourhood of Ternes. It’s a quiet and pretty area that seems a long way from the bustle of the nearby Champs Elysées. There are some excellent restaurants around the ...

Tourists flock to Montmartre, visiting the enormous basilica of Sacré Coeur and retracing the steps of such of artists as Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec. But with its winding maze of cobbled streets, steep staircases and ivy-clad houses, Montmartre still has the ability ...

The elegant Les Invalides, part of the 7th arrondissement, is best known for the monument that gives the neighbourhood its name: the military hospital that now houses a large military museum and is the final resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte. The lower house of the ...

The most glamorous part of the very glamorous 7th arrondissement, this is Paris at its picture-postcard best. Home to the Eiffel Tower and the stately Champs de Mars gardens, as well as the wonderful Quai Branley museum, this is also one of the city’s most desirable ...

Auteuil is a peaceful residential neighbourhood attractively situated between the Bois de Boulogne and the Seine in the 16th arrondissement. Before it was incorporated into the city in the mid-19th century, Auteuil was a pretty village that served as a fashionable ...